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Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Murder as a Fine Art about?
"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir, 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater', is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On murder considered as one of the fine arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives. In Murder as a fine art, David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried bu never forgotten ..."--Page 2 of cover
Who reads Murder as a Fine Art?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- David Morrell
- Publisher
- Cemetery Dance Publications
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781587674181
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (61 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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